Joao Moutinho will leave Porto and Portugal this summer according to reports coming from the country. He is believed to be seeking a more competitive league to continue his footballing career and Spurs are the clear favourites due to his previous working relationship with AVB and their interest in him last summer.

Tottenham youngster Nathan Byrne has agreed a free transfer to Swindon Town. The 20-year-old has been on loan at the League One outfit and never made a first-team appearance for Spurs but has taken in several loan spells with the likes of Crawley Town, Bournemouth and Brentford before his move to The Robins.

Any hope Spurs had of signing Inter Milan full-back Alvaro Pereira seems to be dead after the Uruguayan confirmed his intentions to stay with Inter Milan for the foreseeable future. It had been hoped AVB would have been able to convince him to come to London and take the place of the out-of-favour Benoit Assou-Ekotto.

Mathew Nash

I’m Mathew Nash a 27 year old graduate in Sports Studies and I have an insatiable love for sport. With a particularly keen interest for the madcap world of football I have always been known amongst friends as a beacon for bizarre sporting trivia and knowledge. My other passion is for writing and hopefully combining the two will create a superb and entertaining marriage that will create, divide and share opinion.Mathew is a correspondent for the NextGen Series, Ligue 1 and Primeira Liga.